I am so pleased to announce that the iconic American architect Michael Graves will give the opening keynote address at Stanford Medicine X on September 29, 2012. Paralyzed from the chest down due to a central nervous system infection in 2003, Graves has since used his design acumen to reshape the hospital experience by leading […]

Nick Dawson is the Director Community Engagement at Bon Secours Virginia Health System. He is also an advisory board member to Medicine X and sits on the Medicine X ePatient advisory panel. Nick is a passionate advocate of the patient voice. We are excited to have Nick as a guest-contributor to our Medicine X Blog.

I’m so excited to announce the core themes for Medicine X 2012. Like last year, we plan to curate presenters to speak on six core themes for our conference, each giving 20-minute TED-style talks followed by a panel discussion. There will usually be three speakers per theme and a moderator.

One of the founding missions of Medicine X is to create a patient-centered view of emerging technology and Medicine. Our goal is to unite all health care stakeholders to work together to solve health care problems. As you might guess, patients are a core set of stakeholders. Yet they typically haven’t been meaningfully represented and […]